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Your writing coach
Famous worldwide for our Positive Coaching Method™
Writer coaching at The Novelry
Our book writing coaches are published authors who love working with other writers. They have hit the bestseller lists and been nominated for and won famous awards. Between them, they have experience across the full range of all genres of fiction and memoir. Based in the U.S.A., Canada and the U.K., they coach online worldwide to a structured program designed to help writers complete their novels. Each and every coach reports into our Founder, and working as a team at The Novelry, we meet regularly to review our writers’ storyline and progress.
Our coaches have been hand-picked for The Novelry because they are exceptionally gifted mentors: warm and encouraging. They are trained in our Positive Coaching Method™ and our own structured coaching pathway toward the completion of an exceptional first draft. Our one-on-one writer coaching program is a big part of the reason we’re the world’s best-loved creative writing school.
Bespoke one-on-one coaching
The program provides tailored coaching and your coach will work with you in 45-minute sessions live and online to help develop your story and keep you on track with your writing. The coaching program is structured around your unique ambitions and writing goals. Our focus is 100 per cent on you.
Flexible scheduling and global availability
The coaching program operates in all time zones, catering to writers from all over the world. You can arrange your personal online coaching sessions at times that are convenient to you.
Access to a diverse team of coaches
As a student writer, you can access the entire team of writing coaches, allowing you to switch and swap according to your needs as your story evolves, or to benefit from the special expertise of one coach. Our behind-the-scenes systems mean that we track and follow your progress and pool our knowledge so, when you meet, each and every coach will be familiar with your storyline.
Integrated editorial insights and industry connections
The coaching team works in close collaboration with the editorial team, consulting them regularly on your story. Our students receive the latest publishing industry advice every step of the way. Your success is at the heart of our program.
Piers Torday
Piers Torday is the award-winning and bestselling author of seven books for children dubbed ‘the new master of children’s fiction’ by The Times.
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Bea Fitzgerald
Bea Fitzgerald is a Sunday Times bestselling, award-winning author. Her debut novel, Girl, Goddess, Queen, was published to rave reviews including five-star write-ups in the Telegraph, Glamour and Culturefly. It went on to become the bestselling YA hardback debut of 2023. Girl, Goddess, Queen won Romance Novel of the Year 2024 at the RNAs and has been shortlisted for numerous other awards including the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, the Young Adult Book Prize, and the Books Are My Bag Readers Awards.
Melanie Conklin
Writing coach Melanie Conklin is the award-winning author of five middle-grade books for children, and winner of the International Literacy Association Teacher’s Choice Award.
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Ella McLeod
Ella McLeod is a Branford Boase-nominated author whose debut novel, Rapunzella, Or, Don’t Touch My Hair, was published in July 2022 with Scholastic and in June 2024 with Little Bee in the U.S.A. Rapunzella received rave reviews in Kirkus, the Irish Times, the Guardian, and a star review in Foreword Magazine. Her second novel, The Map That Led To You, was published in June 2024 and is a pirates-and-mermaids swashbuckling adventure story full of queer romance and radical self-acceptance.
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Alice Kuipers
Alice Kuipers is the bestselling, award-winning author of five novels, and six books for younger readers. She has been nominated for the Carnegie Medal. She is also a bestselling ghostwriter experienced in writing memoir.
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Anissa Gray
Anissa Gray is the author of two novels published by Penguin Random House, praised by the New York Times for her beautiful prose and stories about family, love and loss. She is an award-winning journalist whose work has been featured in the Washington Post, CNN and The Cut.
Kate Riordan
Kate Riordan is the bestselling author of seven novels, and has been a Richard and Judy Book Club choice. Her novels are published by Penguin Random House.
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Gina Sorell
Gina Sorell is the author of The Wise Women (HarperCollins), a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, Good Morning America Buzz Book, a People Magazine Best New Book Pick, and Washington Post Summer Selection. Her debut novel, Mothers and Other Strangers, was a Refinery29 and Self Magazine Best Book Pick.
Mahsuda Snaith
Mahsuda Snaith’s debut novel, The Things We Thought We Knew, saw her named an Observer ‘New Face of Fiction.’
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Tara Conklin
Tara Conklin is the New York Times bestselling author of three novels, personal essays, and short stories. Her books have been selected by Read with Jenna, the Today Show Book Club, Barnes & Noble Book Club, Target Book Club, as a No.1 IndieNext Pick and other accolades. Her work has been translated into eight languages. She is based in Seattle.
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Clare Mackintosh
Clare Mackintosh is the multi-award-winning author of seven Sunday Times bestselling novels, including the New York Times bestseller I Let You Go, which won the Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year, and was the fastest-selling debut crime novel in the year it was released.
Kate Riordan
Kate Riordan is the bestselling author of seven novels, and has been a Richard and Judy Book Club choice. Her novels are published by Penguin Random House.
Amanda Reynolds
Amanda Reynolds is the bestselling author of six novels. Her number one ebook bestseller, Close To Me, was adapted into a major TV series.
Emylia Hall
Emylia Hall is the award-winning author of four women’s fiction novels and a six-book cozy crime series. She is a Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund.
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Urban Waite
Urban Waite is the author of four novels, available in over 40 countries and 12 languages. He has received multiple book deals from Simon & Schuster U.K., Little Brown, and William Morrow, among many other book and film deals throughout Europe, Asia, and the production companies of Hollywood.
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Andrea Stewart
Andrea Stewart is the Sunday Times bestselling, award-winning author of the Drowning Empire trilogy (The Bone Shard Daughter, The Bone Shard Emperor and The Bone Shard War) and a finalist for numerous awards, including the Goodreads Choice Award and the British Fantasy Award.
Bea Fitzgerald
Bea Fitzgerald is a Sunday Times bestselling, award-winning author. Her debut novel, Girl, Goddess, Queen, was published to rave reviews including five-star write-ups in the Telegraph, Glamour and Culturefly. It went on to become the bestselling YA hardback debut of 2023. Girl, Goddess, Queen won Romance Novel of the Year 2024 at the RNAs and has been shortlisted for numerous other awards including the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, the Young Adult Book Prize, and the Books Are My Bag Readers Awards.
Tasha Suri
Tasha Suri is the award-winning author of the Books of Ambha duology (Empire of Sand and Realm of Ash) and the epic fantasy trilogy The Burning Kingdoms. Empire of Sand was rated by TIME magazine as one of the best fantasy novels of all time.
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L.R. Lam
El, or L.R. Lam, is the USA Today and Sunday Times bestselling, award-winning author of nine novels, with three more under contract. Their books include the epic fantasy romance Dragonfall, the beginning of the Dragon Scales trilogy, cyberpunk near-future thrillers, space opera novels, and a near-future thriller.
Katie Khan
Katie Khan is the author of two speculative fiction novels, Hold Back the Stars and The Light Between Us, published in the U.K. by Penguin Random House and in the U.S. by Simon & Schuster. Her debut novel Hold Back the Stars is being adapted for film by the producers of Stranger Things. Katie’s books have been translated into more than 20 languages and nominated for awards. Katie is Creative Director at The Novelry.
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Heather Webb
Heather Webb is the USA Today bestselling, award-winning author of ten novels with 23 years of coaching experience.
Kate Riordan
Kate Riordan is the bestselling author of seven novels, and has been a Richard and Judy Book Club choice. Her novels are published by Penguin Random House.
Tara Conklin
Tara Conklin is the New York Times bestselling author of three novels, personal essays, and short stories. Her books have been selected by Read with Jenna, the Today Show Book Club, Barnes & Noble Book Club, Target Book Club, as a No.1 IndieNext Pick and other accolades. Her work has been translated into eight languages. She is based in Seattle.
Anissa Gray
Anissa Gray is the author of two novels published by Penguin Random House, praised by the New York Times for her beautiful prose and stories about family, love and loss. She is an award-winning journalist whose work has been featured in the Washington Post, CNN and The Cut.
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Evie Wyld
Evie Wyld is the award-winning author of five novels and a memoir. She is the only novelist ever to have won both the Miles Franklin Award and the Stella Prize for fiction in Australia. She is also the recipient of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, a Betty Trask Award, the European Union Prize, the Jerwood Fiction Prize, and the Encore Award.
Tara Conklin
Tara Conklin is the New York Times bestselling author of three novels, personal essays, and short stories. Her books have been selected by Read with Jenna, the Today Show Book Club, Barnes & Noble Book Club, Target Book Club, as a No.1 IndieNext Pick and other accolades. Her work has been translated into eight languages. She is based in Seattle.
Urban Waite
Urban Waite is the author of four novels, available in over 40 countries and 12 languages. He has received multiple book deals from Simon & Schuster U.K., Little Brown, and William Morrow, among many other book and film deals throughout Europe, Asia, and the production companies of Hollywood.
Bea Fitzgerald
Bea Fitzgerald is a Sunday Times bestselling, award-winning author. Her debut novel, Girl, Goddess, Queen, was published to rave reviews including five-star write-ups in the Telegraph, Glamour and Culturefly. It went on to become the bestselling YA hardback debut of 2023. Girl, Goddess, Queen won Romance Novel of the Year 2024 at the RNAs and has been shortlisted for numerous other awards including the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, the Young Adult Book Prize, and the Books Are My Bag Readers Awards.
Heather Webb
Heather Webb is the USA Today bestselling, award-winning author of ten novels with 23 years of coaching experience.
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Clare Mackintosh
Clare Mackintosh is the multi-award-winning author of seven Sunday Times bestselling novels, including the New York Times bestseller I Let You Go, which won the Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year, and was the fastest-selling debut crime novel in the year it was released.
Evie Wyld
Evie Wyld is the award-winning author of five novels and a memoir. She is the only novelist ever to have won both the Miles Franklin Award and the Stella Prize for fiction in Australia. She is also the recipient of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, a Betty Trask Award, the European Union Prize, the Jerwood Fiction Prize, and the Encore Award.
‘The ability to chat with authors and editors, who I feel really care about my writing success, is what makes The Novelry so special.’
Published books from our writing coaches
New York Times, USA Today and Sunday Times bestselling and award-winning authors who have published books with the major publishing houses worldwide.
Based in the U.S.A., Canada and the U.K., our team offer coaching sessions for all time zones. You’ll find your sessions with your writing coach are fun, lively and inspiring. Your writing coach will be cheering you on every step of the way, as you tick off your writing goals, develop your skills, and follow in their footsteps to achieve your ambition to get a book deal.
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Unleash your writing potential
Our coaches use our structured coaching program and our Positive Coaching Method™. We’ll shine a light on what’s working and help you fix any problems as you progress along the pathway of story development staying on track to get that novel done!
You’ll watch your story grow before your eyes, and take great leaps of progress as a writer. We’ll show you how to start, coax your story into shape and cheer you on to type ‘The End’.
Choose the course for you, and we’ll take great care of you and your book-in-waiting.
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What makes a good mentor?
An aspiring writer will do better learning from an experienced writer who has navigated the publishing industry successfully, someone with a proven track record in the literary world and the publishing industry. Ideally, someone who has been published more than once and is currently published too.
A good mentor is someone who loves learning and who understands that they too, as a writer, are always learning; that way the one-on-one mentoring relationship becomes a fulfilling and exciting experience. A good mentor should be open to new ideas and the feedback that flows naturally both ways.
To choose yours, consider the books written by the writing coach. Have a read of some sample chapters online. Have they been published recently? Have they got coaching experience? Do they belong to any professional bodies or organizations? The reputation of their network or the company they represent keeps you safe. Ideally they belong to a highly rated writing community that respects them for their ability to work generously with other writers.
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Coaching to finish your novel
‘I found The Novelry at a time when I was ready to give up. I was feeling very low on confidence and knew I’d be my own worst enemy if left to my own devices. The sessions with Emylia, my writing coach, were a real highlight—she always made me feel like she genuinely cared about my novel, and I was constantly amazed at the way she engaged with the story and the creative suggestions she brought forward. The sessions kept me on track and helped me work through plot kinks along the way and I felt like I had a real champion through the whole process.’
—Becky Hunter, now with a major two-book publishing contract in the U.S.A. and the U.K.
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